Newspaper conveyer



E. W. HAMMER NEWSPAPER CONVEYEE Aug. 113, QEZ

Filed Oct. 4, 192% FAQ- Patented Aug. l3,

when srsrss EDWIN 1V. HAMMER, OF EAST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO CLINE ELECTRIC MANUFACTURING CBMPANY, O]? CHICAGD, :[IJLIIIGIS A GORI OBATION OF ILLINOIS.

NENSIPAEER GONVEY Application filed fictober i, 3.9%. Serial No. 741,535.

To all whom z't may concern:

Be it known that l, EDWIN W. HAMMER, a citizen of the United States, residing at East Orange, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Newspaper Conveyors, of which the following is a specification. 7 I

vMy invention relates to improvements in newspaper conveyors, and more particularly to a conveyer which is adapted for use in Connection withhigh-speecl printing presses. The'object of my invention is to provide a conveyer for newspaper and similar sheets, which will take the newspapers as they are delivered from the press and carry them by some convenient route to the. delivery table, whence they are usually distributed by wagon, messenger or mail.

' My conveyer is especially designed for the carrying of folded newspapers without smudgingthe fresh ink where the belts contactwith the papers, particularly where the line of travel changes direction. My conveyor also obviates the difficulty in exlsting conveyers in which the breakage of a single strand or helt 1nay cause serions damage and delay; through the loose ends of the belts or strands flying into the folders of the press and becoming: i'm-olved therewith, or through the still end injuring of personsneer the cone e In the accompanying part of this specification, Y M i. View of a section of preferred rorinotl helt. 2 is a View or? a portion or e con equipped with three of my bolts and FIL 3 "he's formint;

is a diagrammatic showing of newspa per being engaged between sets of parallel bel. s and carried around a sheave or roller.

In general it may be said that my invention is an improvement over the specific iornis of conveyors shownin Patents #667,-- (30 1-, Feb. 5, 1901; #862,148, Aug. 1907; #915,632, March 16, 1.909 and $1,138,609, May -l, 1915. These conveyors are of the trpc in which sets of parallel. belts are an ranged with theiredjecent sides truvelin in the some direction zo d adapted to rcci folded iiewspapers B n such adjacent sides and by thus g. ,ing the papers hold them firmly as they transported by the belts. In my conveyers the parallel grip ping belts are preferably given a zig-zag course so as to keep the gripping belt-sunfaces in close co'ntiguity and in this man nor maintain a Working grip upon the papers. Suitable means may be employed for subjecting the belts to the requisite degrceoii tension, such, for example, as, adjustable and automatically operative tension pulleys in the manner well known in this art; or the belt may be divided into Sections with tension springs 1nterposed;;

or the meslrof the woven belt may be such as to provide the necessary elastic tension. The sheaves should be directly powerdriren so that the carrying belts shall not be required for driving-tension; 1n otherfl belts not be required to drive the-- words, the sheaves shall drive the belts and been shout two inches in width and ll'lS nocessorily contacted with a broad band ottthe newspapers which it assists in carrying. Although the two parallel belts between" which the newspapers are carried are made" to run as nearly as possible at the some speed, the fact that the turning-radius of the inslde belt in passing around a sheave or roller 13 less than the turnnig radius 01" point; this causes a wipingncticn on the, 2 sun:

sh prihher" cuzty is made less where spirally-Wound zrets beltsnreemployed, as suggested in the above Patent, #1,138,609, but such belts are necessarily of small diameter 'ond their strength is limited, and at least more of them must he used than 1s necessary with the leather type oi"; belt.

I have discovered that if ewoven-Wire belt of the general type illustrated in Fig.

1 oil the drawings be employed, the number oiibelts can be minimized and the dangers The belt of leather heretofore used has the ousside belt, causes the outer belt to o behind the inner belt at the turning cc of the newspapers which frequently 0 nlts in smearing or sinudging oi the" s ink. The smearing (lll'lF re a which I prefer to use is inadeup of a series" of great strength'and having -feW .POlkuS advantage of pair of interin cross-l 19085 forms wires, adjacent sides of said belts h'eld uni 1 l with great 9356 around av driving said belts with their'adjacent sides it lowszthat although] the two paalle'lmbelts th a .di gtj n Vapdivapigubstantiany thgi' at 3. It'isto a j'invention being sufiiciently broad to cover belt woven from a Q Lemme 'nisrh'of the 'an onlooker.

As will be seen from Fig. 1, the, belt printing press or in injuring ed claims. I v

I claim as my invention the following bf more or less spirally-wound wires of pair of substantially parallel belts of woven belt falling within the terms of thb-ajapehd- 1. In a conveyer of the class'set forth, a

appropriate size running transversely of, wire, having adjacent sides held under tent belt and interlinked with the adjacent sion closejtogether, and means for driving" and-simllar cross-pieces. It will'be noticed said belts with their adjacent sides travel--.

in the same direction and at substanset renal; 1

that pairs -ofr;cross--wires are looped to in gather attheir .ends, thus forming a belt tia the same speed.

2. In a conveyor of the class air of substantially parallel belts woven tha each Afrom'a plurality of transversely extending of contact with the apers and havmg the at exibility, m

hinge, Permitting the ell as a Whole' der tension close to ether,- and means for Small diameter, as indicated in Fig-l traveling in the same direction and at'subwhich three belts A, A and A? are virun t ti ll th d,

over sheaves or rol er B pp d p- 3. In a conveyor of the cla'ss-set forth, a

P frame'wm'k i driven by rr' t pair of substantially parallel belts woven from a plurality of substantially spiralchains D working oversprockets E.

.If the belts A and AA of F g-, be shaped transverse wires each of which s in- Bidere'd as P s around-a sheave roller tertwined with the two contiguous similar B n carrying newsPa between them, wires and hooked thereto at their ends, ad

' it will be seen that the, lstameimm the n. jacent sides of said belts held under tension tor of. B to the beltA, is less than the correclose together, and means for drivin I p g distance to th 'A I o ibelts'withtheir adjacent sidestravehng in I Aand AA maylhave-the'same' linear-travel I am d per minute, the inner belt would make a 4; I a me compl e revolution fl fi'fi 8 t lurality of pairs of substantially than the outer belt AA, as it would have a li ns of woven wire, 81101136! distance to travel H1 domg S0. The haying 'adjacef t sides held under tension COIISB uence is that the. outer. belt AA lags -(71Q33 together, and means for driving said behin the-inner belt A m' olng around the b lt with th ir adjacent sides traveling in sheave B. -In the case 0 a flat l f substantiallythe same direction and at-su-bleatheror other material, this is apt to cause t tiall th g -d. I a smud ing or smearing of fresh ink, while 5, I e;- ji. h class f th, a this di cu ty is not present 1n my preferred plurality of palrsxoff substantially parallel form of belt-in whi the Points of 'llt, elts' woven froma plurality of transversely are few and widely separated. /1 extending. wires, each of said The size of wire and the mesh employed adjacent sides h ldz id t n l it is a matter of engineering choice, dependm gether, and means for .driving aid belts largely on the length of belt to be employ with their. adjacent sides traveling insubthe weight of the papers to be conveyed and stantially the same direction and at substanthediameter of the sheaves employed. The tially the same speed.

6. In a conveyer of the class set forth, a plurality of pai'rsfof substantially parallel specific belt illustrated in Fig. 1 is 2" 'in' width, is shown as of substantmlly 18 gauge wire and has about three meshes to the eits woven. froma plurality of substaninch. Fi 1 shows how a cross-wire 1 inter tially spiral-shaped transverse wires each of how the two adjacent'crossmires are hooked imilar wires and hooked thereto at its ends, together by loop: at their ends as illustrated each of said construction the two'ends of a belt can be fm-drivin said belts with their adjacent brought together and spliced through the sides trave ing in the same direction and at sunp f wire whic e e'xpledient of inserting a single cross substantially the same speed.

' w1ll interim]; with-the ad acgnt 7. In a co'n-veyer of the cla'ssset forth, a cross-wires on either s de and then be looped woven wire belt, sheaves over which said at the ends as shown at the oint 3. belt travels, and means-for directly driving While I have shown in t is specification suchsheaves, whereby driving tension is re-' a preferred form of woven-wire belt .I do lieved from said belt. not-wish-to be limited strictly thereto, my 8. In a conveyerof combinations including equivalent forms oi extending wires,,s

eaves over which s'ai yer oif the" class set forth, n A

arallel j each of mi .pairs 4 airs having airs having adjacent sides understood that with thlS hGld under tension close together, and means the class set forth, a 1' plurality of transverse] l m 11s:- linkswit an adjacent cross-wire 2 and yvhicli isintertwined-with the two contiguous belt'travols, and means for directly driving lar wires and hooked thereto at itsends, such sheaves, wherebydriving tension is resheaves over which said belt travels, and lieved from said belt. means for directly driving such, sheaves, 9. In a conveyer of thevclass set forth, a whereby driving tension is relieved fr'om belt-woven from a plurality of substantially said belt.

spiral-shaped transverse wires each of which is intertwined with the two contiguous sim'i- EDWIN W. HAMMER. 

